In August 2014, law enforcement officers and the public took notice when protestors in Ferguson, Missouri, erupted with outrage after the death of Michael Brown following an encounter with the police. This incident became one of the first involving police use of force to be broadcast widely online through social media, as well as across television news and in print media. With members of communities using their phones to record and share police encounters in the time to follow, tensions that law enforcement agencies may previously have experienced primarily on a local level started to garner attention throughout the United States. As a result, a few media outlets began compiling their own accountings of police uses of force, often gathered from open sources.